Executive Director, Tech4Dev, Diwura Oladepo, in this interview with Nosa Alekhuogie, speaks about the need to empower rural and underserved communities with basic digital skills. Excerpts:
Tech4Dev and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), in the United Kingdom, signed an agreement to train people in Northern Nigeria on basic digital skills. What must have informed this initiative, and what does it seek to achieve?
In a time of social distancing and government-enforced lockdowns to curtail the spread of COVID-19, digital technology became the enabler of the continuation of work, education, and communication. But for millions of people who are unable to use technology, the offline world is economically and socially isolating. COVID-19 has further illuminated the ‘digital divide’, which is even more pronounced in Nigeria and worse off in poor rural clusters of Northern Nigeria. Therefore, it has become pertinent, especially on this path to the new normal, to focus
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, on Wednesday urged Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts across West Africa to be ambitious towards its growth in the area.
He stated this at the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA) currently holding in Abuja.
The meeting was also attended by the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta.
In his opening remarks, Pantami described WATRA as a strong union of 16 countries.
He said there was a tremendous advancement in the development of the telecommunications sector in West Africa with its liberalisation through the establishment of modern legal and regulatory structures for telecommunications delivery in the region.
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NITDA kicks-off specialised digital literacy, skills programme for States
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By Emmanuel Elebeke
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has commenced Digital Literacy and Skills Programme to actualise the Digital Nigeria strategy.
The programme is aimed at equipping Nigerian youths with the necessary digital literacy skills that can facilitate Nigeria’s transition from. commodity to the Digital Economy. It is also aimed at training about 540 youths from each state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The Director-General of the NITDA, Mallam Abdullahi Inuwa said the programme is in line Digital Literacy and Skills pillar of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy for a Digital Nigeria.
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